For folks using Chrome, check out Tabs Outliner if you like This Sort Of Thing™. I can't imagine using Chrome without it.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabs-outliner/eggk...
Tree Style Tabs
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#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's a similar, though not quite as good, Chrome extension called Sidewise. Unfortunately Chrome itself is not as extensible as Firefox so there are issues in Sidewise, the most glaring being that the list of tabs appears in a separate window and Sidewise snaps its position and layout to match your Chrome window using some heuristics. All that said, just use Firefox. It's a much better experience and after Quantum…
Sidewise... I already tried it, and it is nothing more than a bad hack... I guess we'll never get that. Firefox has worse performance than Chrome and I don't trust Mozilla, so unfortunately using Firefox is not an option for me.
> I don't trust Mozilla
Well you gotta pick your poison. It's either them or Google. To be honest, "poison" is too harsh. Mozilla has done a few stupid things, but they're far more trustworthy than other Internet players.
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#133I don’t understand how people browse the web without this extension. That’s the number one reason chrome is not usable for power users. I’m also wondering why this is not natively supported by both firefox and chrome.
Accordion my current workload (currently have about ~20 tabs). Anything that gets stuck for a while gets bookmarked, and I generally go through and close unnecessary garbage in the morning.
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I disagree. It’s the poor history UX that’s the problem. Get rid of tabs altogether and show the history on the left side. Or if you like fuzzy searching, look them up in the extension store.
My history is too messy, I often flit to sites for a couple of seconds and backtrack. Tabs make lots of sense, windows let me organise them into groups of things I'm currently working on. That's all sensible . Anything I come across that I think might be useful to my future self, I bookmark it. Again, working with the provided functionality. Sensible. When people have 200 tabs open and can't remember what's where, th…
I’ve been using an extension that orders tabs by MRU and it has my history baked in. I don’t even use tabs anymore on my text editors as I found that it’s unnecessary if you have fuzzy searching that lists the files in MRU order as suggestions.
The problem with bookmarks for most of us is that users don’t typically manage their bookmarks and delete the links they don’t need.
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#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have about 400-500 open tabs spread between three browsers on three systems which I'm using simultaneously. At least on my phone, Firefox Focus has helped immensely.
Why though? Is it all in the same context? I can't stand 10's of tabs let alone 100's!!
Each instance of firefox has its own context. One is unsafe browsing, one is personal browsing, one is development-related browsing, a la Qubes. I used to have a problem with messy, unnavigable bookmarks so now I keep my bookmarks lean and rely on tabs to hold pages I may only need for a month or two at most. It's pretty quick to navigate to a tab with Ctrl+L
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#136How well does this play with Multi-Account Containers?
Very well! Even shows a little coloured strip on each tab, and respects regular tab hierarchy.
I found the indicators too narrow, so I made this CSS change (in TST config):
/* Better highlighting of tab container */
.tab {
padding-right: 12px !important;
}
.contextual-identity-marker {
width: 6px !important;
border-radius: 2px;
margin: 2px;
opacity: 0.75;
}
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#137I've been using TST for many years and it's really the killer feature that keeps bringing me back to firefox. For those running on older machines who still like having a big tab hierarchy with stuff to check later, there's the "Auto Tab Discard" [1] extension which will discard older tabs from memory while keeping the tab itself, with optional exceptions for pinned tabs, tabs with filled forms, ... Unfortunately ther…
I recently realized that chromium is a memory hog, with 50 tabs most of my ram (8G) is gone; while firefor nightly is around 1G, 1.5G maybe with a similar load. I guess this is gonna shrink memory usage even more.
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#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
Tomato/tomato. I don’t understand how people browse the web with more than 4 or 5 tabs open at the same time.
You never have more than 5 tabs open at the same time? You’re probably the minority and you probably have learned to do that because the tabs on top put these constraints on you. You would likely browse the web very differently if you had TST. Give it a try.
The minority on HN, maybe. Definitely not to the general public. The general user is almost certainly not using more than 1 tab at any time.
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#139Re: Tree Style Tabs
#140I've been using TST for many years and it's really the killer feature that keeps bringing me back to firefox. For those running on older machines who still like having a big tab hierarchy with stuff to check later, there's the "Auto Tab Discard" [1] extension which will discard older tabs from memory while keeping the tab itself, with optional exceptions for pinned tabs, tabs with filled forms, ... Unfortunately ther…
I recently realized that chromium is a memory hog, with 50 tabs most of my ram (8G) is gone; while firefor nightly is around 1G, 1.5G maybe with a similar load. I guess this is gonna shrink memory usage even more.
It does seem to use more memory, but at least on my Mac it uses a lot less CPU.
For firefox it just takes one bad tab (gmaps, gmail, facebook, youtube/embedded youtube) to grind the whole system to a halt, all these things work fine on chrome, and use almost no CPU on safari.